If you work with the REALbasic development environment from Real Software, you may be interested in several updated REALbasic products.
Einhugur Software has updated their fine Grid Control, a spreadsheet plug-in control for REALbasic, to version 2.5. The update adds a GotFocus event, a LostFocus event, a KeyDown event, a MouseDrag event, a CancelEventAction property, a GetFocusOnClick property, support for CGridSort 1.1 and 1.2, support for CcolumnResize, a VerticalScrollbar property and more.
3TAG AB/Code 66 has updated their T3 Key plug-in for REALbasic 3.5.x/4.x. The plug-in handles three tasks, Global HotKey, get virtual keycodes & posting global keydown events. It adds two droppable controls, one for HotKey and one for KeyCode grabbing. The download comes with a sampleproject.
The 1.0.2 release now adds some DockTile functionality to the set of Global Key handling and postings. The new functionality lets users set up the dock tile from a picture and a mask, or overlay the current docktile, and restore the docktile to it’s original appearance. Any collapsed window can now also update its docktile when collapsed. The plug-in is still US$8 for hobbyist programmers and $25 for professionals and high volume shareware developers.
Finally, there’s Spinner, which offers a demonstration of the RB3Dspace. It’s an app for demonstrating the use of REALbasic’s new 3D graphics facilities. It uses an RB3DSpace to display a spinning cluster of particles. Written to explore REALbasic’s 3D abilities. You can use it to explore the use of properties like FieldofView, Yon and Hither.